Sappho
Medium
gypsograph
Dimensions
image: 12 × 19.1 cm · sheet: 27.6 × 36.6 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Friends of the Department of Prints and Drawings
Accession Number
1991.153
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
Dumont was an innovative printmaker who experimented with a variety of printmaking processes. Sappho-which depicts the ancient Greek poetess with a lyre in a grove of birch trees-appeared in Pan, an artistic journal, accompanied by an article about the gypsograph technique (see glossary). Dumont made several versions of Sappho, which is not surprising since he also wrote poetry.